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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026

1. Its been a week since NYU Langone ended its trans youth care program. Then Sinai followed a few days ago. There are immediate steps Mamdani can take, and he refuses to do so. When asked about those steps, his office has chosen not to comment repeatedly. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Trans New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Mamdani's Inaction On Trans Youth Care Closures

The mayor has immediate steps he can take to ensure continuity of care for trans youth.

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Well I downloaded the bunker app

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

OUT NOW: SYRIA, Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam, a 300-page anthology of Syrian literature and art that speaks to this moment. arablit.org/2026/03/01/a...

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Disassociating with fish

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

do not borrow grief from the future

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Today's the last day ⬇️ ⬇️

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 23/02/2026

"Fingers. Again. Again. / Lucky. / If you killed me, I’d forgive you." From "Casino," an new poem by Christian Paulisich. ➡️ buff.ly/s1reisq

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The only reliable way anybody has found to keep a lit mag solvent is have the CIA fund it.

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Athenaeum Boekhandel @athenaeum.nl · 21/02/2026

De shortlist voor de Herman de Coninckprijs 2026 is bekend! Maxime Garcia Diaz, Sarah de Koning, Jolanda Kooijmans, Yasmin Namavar, Peter Verhelst en Sandrine Verstraete maken kans op de prijs. Lees meer: athenaeumscheltema.n...

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Revenge is sweeter in Paris

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🤌🍕ᕼᙍᖇᙍ ᖴᓎᖇ ᑤᕼᙍᙍSᙍ🧀🤌 @born2.besilly.online · 09/02/2026

IM NOT GONNA USE GEMINI IM NOT GONNA USE COPILOT IM NOT GONNA USE CHATGPT IM NOT GONNA USE CLAUDE IM NOT GONNA USE GROK ALL YALL CAN GET FUCKED INTO THE SUN

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Verse of April @verseofapril.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Yes, give us more poet-on-poet. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by @dechabaneixbaptiste)

Verse of April Submissions Open for Poets-on-Poets Interviews and Poets-on-Poets Essays.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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A Day for Gaza

Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Last night’s inauguration of the Netherlands’ new poet laureate, my dear friend Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad. As Sahand Sahebdivani put it in his speech: “What a gift it is to speak many languages” @uitgeverijpluim.bsky.social #dichterdernederlanden

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

"My identifying features / are rapture and despair." - Wislawa Szymborska, Sky

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A drawing by Erik Satie which cannot resist its fancies.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

When AI gets attention for recovering lost works of art, it makes the technology sound a lot less scary than when it garners headlines for creating deep fakes that falsify politicians’ speech or for using facial recognition for authoritarian surveillance.

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Happy annual mute AWP day to all who celebrate

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

whatever it may be, your movement needs poets (don't always look like Poets), not grifters, because every movement needs people who patiently examine, life long, how language pricks and punctures and grazes and warms and holds and pushes us toward what we don't know yet how to say--world in process

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Netherlands’ new poet laureate and a dear friend:

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

There's a lot of issues with the myths around nonviolence and protest. A big one is that they erase the actual history of the civil rights movement — complex coalitions whose struggles and strategies are vital to understand — into a whitewashed saintliness that gentry liberals are comfortable with.

It is important that those who seek to crush liberation today must sanitize and erase the movements of the past, particularly the civil rights movement. They conflate its nonviolence with passivity and a lack of disruption. Some, like 50501, do this explicitly. In doing so they even get nonviolence wrong. The civil rights movement had its own disagreements and differences with other groups in the wider Black liberation struggles, but its use of nonviolence was explicitly a set of highly disruptive tactics aimed at making injustice impossible to maintain.

Its groups and organizers intentionally defied laws and police while refusing “moderate” offers of compromise. “It isn’t nice” was one of their songs for a reason. Today, there’s good odds those organizers and activists would be condemned as “provacateurs” and turned over to the police by those who invoke their memory to shut down militant demonstrations today.

Their attitudes on armed defense — and even violence — were also much more complex, rooted in the reality of the cold terrors they faced. It is also much more complex than portrayed in today’s liberal mythology.

Martin Luther King, Jr., while not expressly advocating violent revolt himself, nevertheless refused to condemn tactics used by others in the fight for Black liberation, especially in his later years.

“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society,” King said in his 1968 lecture The Other America. “These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention.”

”And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard,” King continued to the audience of high schoolers in Grosse Point, Mich. “And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”

In 1965 King even pointedly refused to condemn Annie Cooper, a Selma, Ala. woman who punched the notoriously racist sheriff square in the face and knocked him to the ground, noting that her actions were clearly “provoked” by his racist violence.

In Charles Cobb’s seminal book on the role of armed resistance in the struggle for Black liberation, especially in the American Civil Rights Movement, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, he recounted how journalist William Worthy stumbled upon two firearms in King’s house. The civil rights leader noted these were “just for self-defense.” Another activist described King’s home as “an arsenal.”

“The claim that armed self-defense was a necessary aspect of the civil rights movement is still controversial,” Cobb, a legendary journalist and former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, wrote. “However, wielding weapons, especially firearms, let both participants in nonviolent struggle and their sympathizers protect themselves and others under terrorist attack for their civil rights activities. Their willingness to use deadly force ensured the survival not only of countless brave men and women but also of the freedom struggle itself.”

He lays out a multitude of examples, like the heavily-armed Deacons for Defense and Justice group that mobilized against segregation and worked closely with civil rights organizers.

“If we had a picket line, these guys were standing on the corner, on both sides of the street,” CORE organizer Fred Brooks recalled. “Wherever we went it was like a caravan; these guys in their pick-up trucks with their high-powered rifles.”

Renowned radical civil rights organizer Fannie Lou Hamer put it bluntly: “I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom, and the first cracker even look like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won’t write his mama again.”

Cobb wrote his history to counter the ongoing sanitization of the realities of that struggle. He’s honest about divisions within the movement over the use of armed force, but also emphasizes that fears that armed demonstrations and defense would lead to overwhelming retaliation proved unfounded. Instead, in plenty of cases local segregationist governments folded in the face of them.

“It may be that ‘nonviolent’ is simply the wrong word for many of the people who participated in the freedom struggle and who were comfortable with both nonviolence and self-defense, assessing what to do primarily on the basis of which seemed the most practical at any given moment,” Cobb concluded.

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A poem very close to my heart has appeared for public viewing @glasspoetry.bsky.social - much love to Tony for trusting this work

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Today a neighbor complained to me and my kids that the fort they’d made on our patio was not “aesthetic” and was like homeless people had moved in. She did this while holding her naked breasts over her balcony. “I didn’t know kids lived here,” she said, of an 18 story highrise in Amdam north . . .

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/04/2025

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

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Fabienne Rachmadiev @fabidanslemetro.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Voor De Gids schreef ik over mijn veranderde verhouding tot het russisch, mijn tweede taal in plaats van het Kazachs, en over de historische, traumatische gebeurtenissen van Bloedige Januari in 2022. Hier te lezen: www.de-gids.nl/artikelen/qa...

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Qantar, of de binnenkant van mijn jas – De Gids

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Aria (Is Drafting) 🏳️‍🌈⚧️ @anariablooms.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

White guy gets a little validation from other men and immediately starts praising the taliban lol

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

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Democrats Abroad @demsabroad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And please don't forget that the SAVE Act requires in-person voter registration (in many states that means every year). This will disenfranchise Americans abroad (or force them to pay to travel to the US), including the military, as well as the elderly and disabled. Stop the #SAVEAct !

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The NYT reports DOGE has recommended cuts that would likely result in the shutdown of the NEH. This would gut Tennessee Humanities, which funds the excellent Southern Festival of the Book, as well as Chapter 16--the only outlet in TN that still reviews books. This is heartbreaking.

As of this morning, Humanities Tennessee and all state councils have receive a notice of termination of our NEH grant.

What does this mean for Humanities Tennessee?

What will we lose?

Free reading and book programs like the Southern Festival of Books, HT's annual largest annual event connecting readers and authors for 36 years, and access to book news and events via Chapter16.org

Young writer and reader programs like Student Readers Days that connect school students with authors while providing free books, plus our annual writing workshops for high school students

Shared Futures Lab podcast spotlighting Tennessee stories and exploring ways to create a thriving future for all Tennesseans

History programs commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

Opportunities for K-12 students across the state to participate in Tennessee History Day and National History Day competitions

Funding for rural museums and historical societies

Scholarships for volunteers at small museums to attend the annual Tennessee Association of Museums conference

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Obsessed with this book and the Tiber in early spring

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Caught the eclipse on camera

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Seems pretty fascism-y

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Can Secretary Rubio give us a full list of the political views the administration will allow immigrants to espouse and which ones he will decide to "yank" their visas over? Be specific, please. www.state.gov/secretary-of...

SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, I think there’s a little bit of common sense here. You come to the States and then you decide you don’t like those paper straws that some of the stores are selling and you start protesting or complaining about paper straws – I mean, we’re obviously not going to yank a visa over that. I think it crosses a line – think about it this way. No one has a right to a visa. These are things that we decide. We deny visas every day for all kinds of reasons all over the world. We deny visas because we think people might overstay. We deny visas because the country they come from are people that historically overstay. We deny visas every day, and we can revoke visas. If you have the power to deny, you have the power to revoke.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues

According to ICE records, Iranian national Alireza Doroudi is currently being held in a "detention facility" after he was recently detained.

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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Lowkey PTSD from the AWP posts everywhere

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Fun fact: @runforsomething.net is *still* averaging about 500 new people signing up every single day to consider a run for local office.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/03/2025

1. The list of countries issuing travel advisories for LGBTQ+ and especially trans travelers to the United States is expanding. France, Denmark, Finland, and Germany are all warning trans and LGBTQ+ travelers of potential trouble. The latest form S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Not Just Passports: Several Countries Have Issued U.S. Travel Advisories Over Anti-LGBTQ Policies

At least four countries have adjusted their travel guidelines to keep citizens safe from anti-LGBTQ persecution in the United States.

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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 27/03/2025

New visa policy targets transgender individuals: A directive from the Secretary of State requires visa applicants to disclose their sex assigned at birth, possibly affecting transgender travelers in all categories - Broad implications beyond sports: www.huschblackwell.com/newsandinsig...

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New Visa Rules Target Transgender Individuals: Considerations for Employers and Educational Institutions

A memo issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, titled "Guidance for Visa Adjudicators on Executive Order 14201: ‘Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports,'" introduces new U.S. visa policies that affect tr...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

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